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History, Theory, and Research Strategies | |
Human Development as an Interdisciplinary, Scientific, Basic and Applied Field Issues | |
The Lifespan Perspective: A Balanced Point of View | |
Historical Foundations | |
Mid-Twentieth-Century Theories | |
Recent Theoretical Perspectives | |
Comparing and Evaluating Theories | |
Studying Development | |
Ethics in Lifespan Research | |
Biological and Environmental Foundations | |
Genetic Foundations | |
Reproductive Choices | |
Environmental Contexts for Development | |
Understanding the Relationship between Heredity and Environment | |
Prenatal Development, Birth, and the Newborn Baby | |
Prenatal Development | |
Prenatal Environmental Influences | |
Childbirth | |
Approaches to Childbirth | |
Medical Interventions | |
Preterm and Low-Birth-Weight Infants | |
Understanding Birth Complications | |
The Newborn Baby's Capacities | |
Adjusting to the New Family Unit | |
Physical Development in Infancy and Toddlerhood | |
Body Growth | |
Brain Development | |
Influences on Early Physical Growth | |
Learning Capacities | |
Motor Development | |
Perceptual Development | |
Cognitive Development in Infancy and Toddlerhood | |
Piaget's Cognitive-Developmental Theory | |
Information Processing | |
The Social Context of Early Cognitive Development | |
Individual Differences in Early Mental Development | |
Language Development | |
Emotional and Social Development in Infancy and Toddlerhood | |
Erikson's Theory of Infant and Toddler Personality | |
Emotional Development | |
Temperament and Development | |
Development of Attachment | |
Self-Development during the First Years | |
Physical and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood | |
Physical Development | |
Body Growth | |
Brain Development | |
Influences on Physical Growth and Health | |
Motor Development | |
Cognitive Development | |
Piaget's Theory: The Preoperational Stage | |
Vygotsky's Sociocultural Theory | |
Information Processing | |
Individual Differences in Mental Development | |
Language Development | |
Emotional and Social Development in Early Childhood | |
Erikson's Theory: Initiative versus Guilt | |
Self-Understanding | |
Emotional Development | |
Peer Relations | |
Foundations of Morality | |
Gender Typing | |
Child Rearing and Emotional and Social Development | |
Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood | |
Physical Development | |
Body Growth | |
Common Health Problems | |
Motor Development and Play | |
Cognitive Development | |
Piaget's Theory: The Concrete Operational Stage | |
Information Processing | |
Individual Differences in Mental Development | |
Language Development | |
Learning in School | |
Emotional and Social Development in Middle Childhood | |
Erikson's Theory: Industry versus Inferiority | |
Self-Understanding | |
Emotional Development | |
Understanding Others: Perspective Taking | |
Moral Development | |
Peer Relations | |
Gender Typing | |
Family Influences | |
Some Common Problems of Development | |
Physical and Cognitive Development in Adolescence | |
Physical Development | |
Conceptions of Adolescence | |
Puberty: The Physical Transition to Adulthood | |
The Psychological Impact of Pubertal Events | |
Health Issues | |
Cognitive Development | |
Piaget's Theory: The Formal Operational Stage | |
An Information-Processing View of Adolescent Cognitive Development | |
Consequences of Abstract Thought | |
Sex Differences in Mental Abilities | |
Learning in School | |
Emotional and Social Development in Adolescence | |
Erikson's Theory: Identity versus Identity Diffusion | |
Self-Understanding | |
Moral Development | |
Gender Typing | |
The Family | |
Peer Relations | |
Problems of Development | |
Physical and Cognitive Development in Early Adulthood | |
Physical Development | |
Biological Aging Begins in Early Adulthood | |
Physical Changes | |
Health and Fitness | |
Cognitive Development | |
Changes in the Structure of Thought | |
Information Processing: Expertise and Creativity | |
Changes in Mental Abilities | |
The College Experience | |
Vocational Choice | |
Emotional and Social Development in Early Adulthood | |
Erikson's Theory: Intimacy versus Isolation | |
Other Theories of Adult Psychosocial Development | |
Close Relationships | |
The Family Life Cycle | |
The Diversity of Adult Lifestyles | |
Career Development | |
Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle Adulthood | |
Physical Development | |
Physical Changes | |
Health and Fitness | |
Adapting to the Physical Challenges of Midlife | |
Cognitive Development | |
Changes in Mental Abilities | |
Information Processing | |
Vocational Life and Cognitive Development | |
Adult Learners: Becoming a College Student in Midlife | |
Emotional and Social Development in Middle Adulthood | |
Erikson's Theory: Generativity versus Stagnation | |
Other Theories of Psychosocial Development in Midlife | |
Stability and Change in Self-Concept and Personality | |
Relationships at Midlife | |
Vocational Life | |
Physical and Cognitive Development in Late Adulthood | |
Physical Development | |
Life Expectancy | |
Physical Changes | |
Health, Fitness, and Disability | |
Cognitive Development | |
Memory | |
Language Processing | |
Problem Solving | |
Wisdom | |
Factors Related to Cognitive Change | |
Cognitive Interventions | |
Lifelong Learning | |
Emotional and Social Development in Late Adulthood | |
Erikson's Theory: Ego Integrity versus Despair | |
Other Theories of Psychosocial Development in Late Adulthood | |
Stability and Change in Self-Concept and Personality | |
Individual Differences in Psychological Well-Being | |
A Changing Social World | |
Relationships in Late Adulthood | |
Retirement and Leisure | |
Successful Aging | |
Death, Dying and Bereavement | |
How We Die | |
Understanding of and Attitudes toward Death | |
Thinking and Emotions of Dying People | |
A Place to Die | |
The Right to Die | |
Bereavement: Coping with Death of a Loved One | |
Death Education | |
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